Quotes by : Jack Gilbert

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.

I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against....

The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German Tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers,....

It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked....

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music....

Michiko Nogami (1946—1982)” Is she more apparent because she is notanymore forever? Is her whiteness....

I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.